Wellness Calendar: Tuesday 30 September

Further reading
If empowerment is a subject that you’d like to get your teeth into, there are many rich models and concepts around power and control, just as there are many theorists and books that will hopefully expand your mind and liberate your soul. Here is just a flavour of some that you may wish to explore in your own time, if you choose to.
[NB. We will also be exploring this area in greater detail, with an aim to publish a book and design a facilitation course around self-empowerment in 2024.]
Books
Healing from Toxic Relationships: 10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis.
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson.
The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanton.
Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachina Valley by John Gaventa.
Power: A Radical View by Steven Lukes.
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky.
The Dynamics of Power in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics, Politics and Practice by Gillian Proctor.
Articles
“Agents of social control” – Stephen Joseph.
“The beating of Rodney King: the dynamics of backfire” – Brian Martin.
“The concept of power” – Robert Dahl.
“Two faces of power” – Bachrach and Baratz.
Sociological theories: class theory of power, elite theory of power, pluralist theory of power, gender theory of power, feminist theory of power, Marxist theory of power, anarchism, freedom and power.